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“It’s time for Belmont to change and to recognize that we have gay students, faculty and staff,” said Mike Curb, a trustee emeritus at Belmont who has donated millions to help the Nashville university school expand. “I want to see this board and the school leadership act like Christians.”

Curb says that board members are out of touch with the reality of life at Belmont’s school of music business. Many of those students are gay, he said. And no matter what their sexual orientation, Belmont graduates will work with gay colleagues in the music business when they graduate,” he said.

“Belmont has to decide whether they want to be a national recognized university – particularly with their school of music business – or they want to be a church,” he said.